MODESTO - Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, star of Broadway's Wicked and the original stage production of Rent, will make her debut at the Gallo Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, performing her brand new live show.

A light rain and slick roadway conditions were blamed for the death of a pickup truck driver at about 11:15 Wednesday morning when he spun out in his Dodge Dakota as he was entering the Highway 99 freeway from Lathrop Road.

Jeremy Victorino, 29, the most seriously injured in a Saturday night collision with a Manteca police vehicle, remains in a medically induced coma at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, according to a family member.

Farmers are scratching their heads trying to figure out why - with a serious shortage of water on the horizon - the Bureau is considering releasing additional water from New Melones to conduct seepage studies along the Stanislaus River.